Michael Frayn is also the recipient of the 2002 Heywood Hill Literary Prize. His most recent novel is Skios (2012) a comic novel on a case of mistaken identity. Spies won the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award and the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia region, Best Book), and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Book of the Year. More recent novels include A Landing on the Sun (1991), which won the Sunday Express Book of the Year Headlong (1999), the story of the discovery of a lost painting by Bruegel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction and Spies (2002), a story of childhood set in England during the Second World War. He then worked as a reporter and columnist for The Guardian and The Observer, publishing several novels including The Tin Men (1965), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, The Russian Interpreter (1966), which won the Hawthornden Prize, and Towards the End of the Morning (1967). Playwright, novelist and translator Michael Frayn was born in London on 8 September 1933.Īfter two years National Service, during which he learned Russian, he read Philosophy at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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